BDS = BOYCOTT DIVESTMENT SANCTIONS

Boycott, Divestment,Sanctions - BDS - these were amongst the most useful tools in bringing down the South African apartheid police state in 1994.

South Africa saw the installation of that country's first black president in 1994 after a few hundred years of apartheid, and unfortunately much of South Africa's governance has gone downhill since Mandela retired in 1999.

Corruption, mismanagement, managerial appointment inadequacies, and ineptness, many of South Africa's problems in the year 2020 will have been because of unsatisfactory mis-direction. With all its problems, the country's post-apartheid constitution is one of the most progressive in the western world, and gives hope for the country to be able to progress beyond the disasters of the past 20 years.

So many other parts of the world have disastrous governments, or dictators or corrupt politicians that BDS could well be applied to them to help bring about change. Israel's apartheid military control over Palestine and the Palestinians has seen the Palestinians endeavours to obtain help from the rest of the world with BDS as their most useful tool to date.

Now contemplate if BDS were used against 3 of those who are Israel's greatest supporters in maintaining the illegal occupation of Palestine by the Israelis - the UK, the USA and Australia - or to put it another way - Boris, Donald, Scott, or BDS.

David Everett (1770-1813) wrote:

"Large streams from little fountains flow,
Tall oaks from little acorns grow (Lines written for a School Declamation)"

This is how to bring about change in countries around the world.